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Definition of Tabes

1. Noun. Wasting of the body during a chronic disease.

Definition of Tabes

1. n. Progressive emaciation of the body, accompanied with hectic fever, with no well-marked local symptoms.

Definition of Tabes

1. Noun. (medical) A kind of slow bodily wasting or emaciating disease, often accompanying a chronic disease. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Tabes

1. a syphilitic disease [n TABES]

Medical Definition of Tabes

1. Progressive emaciation of the body, accompained with hectic fever, with no well-marked logical symptoms. Tabes dorsalis [NL, tabes of the back], locomotor ataxia; sometimes called simply tabes. Tabes mesenterica [NL, mesenteric tabes], a wasting disease of childhood characterised by chronic inflammation of the lymphatic glands of the mesentery, attended with caseous degeneration. Origin: L, a wasting disease. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Tabes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Text-book of medicine for students and practitioners by Adolf von Strümpell (1901)
"The first description of tabes, which, of course, is defective in many respects, is found in a work of W. Horn in 1827. We must thank especially the ..."

2. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"The most characteristic example is tabes dorsalis, in which the degeneration is almost limited to the sensory neuron systems. Subsequently, we shall discuss ..."

3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1897)
"[Concerning a Peculiarity of Structure of the Cells of the Column of Clarke, and the Condition of these Cells in Simple tabes, or tabes associated with ..."

4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1916)
"THIS study of ataxia in early cases of tabes was undertaken because of a recent paper published by an excellent observer,2 in which it was stated definitely ..."

5. The Dublin Journal of Medical Science (1882)
"Whether it may be safely used in all cases for compression of the left artery, is another question. ON THE RELATION BETWEEN SYPHILIS AND tabes ..."

6. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"Spasmodic tabes. See spasmodic.—tabes dorsalis. Same as locomotor ataxia (which see .... Causing tabes ; deranging the organs of digestion and assimilation; ..."

7. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1842)
"tabes mesenterica is that wasting of the body which follows scrofulous inflammation of the mesenteric glands ; and tabes dorsalis denotes an impairment of ..."

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